{"id":1272,"date":"2010-01-22T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irmadriessen.nl\/log\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2010-01-22T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T22:00:24","slug":"unless-youre-henry-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/unless-youre-henry-james\/","title":{"rendered":"unless you&#8217;re henry james"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Didion over schrijven. &#8216;What&#8217;s so hard about that first sentence is that you&#8217;re stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you&#8217;ve laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone. [&#8230;] and the last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up. It should make you go back and start reading from page one. That&#8217;s how it should be, but it doesn&#8217;t always work. I think writing anything at all as a kind of high-wire act. The minute you start putting words on paper you&#8217;re eliminating possibilities. Unless you&#8217;re Henry James.&#8217; <small><span style=\"color: #303030;\">\u2013 <em>paris review interview<\/em>, 1978<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Didion over schrijven. &#8216;What&#8217;s so hard about that first sentence is that you&#8217;re stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you&#8217;ve laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone. [&#8230;] and the last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/unless-youre-henry-james\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}